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  1. Two new research projects to improve water management

    News
    Lakes play a major role in providing ecosystem services. But the ecological status and water quality of these lakes is often still not good enough, and is further threatened by the effects of climate change. Two new projects at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) will look for solutions to this problem.
    Een waterparel: water met een goede waterkwaliteit

  2. Three NIOO researchers on the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2024

    News
    Three NIOO researchers are on this year's Clarivate Analytics' “Highly Cited Researchers” list. Paolina Garbeva for the first time, two others for the seventh consecutive year: Jos Raaijmakers and Wim van der Putten.
    Clarivate 2022

  3. (Citizen) science café soil

    Event
    Do you want to know more about the life under our feet? Are you curious about soil animals in the Netherlands? During the (Citizen) Science café on 3 December, all this will be discussed. Here, Ron de Goede, Paul Bodelier and Froukje Rienks, among others, will discuss life in the soil.
    NIOO 70 years of ecology

  4. Steven Declerck appointed professor at KU Leuven

    News
    From 1 October, the Belgian university KU Leuven has appointed Steven Declerck as professor at the Department of Biology. Steven Declerck is an aquatic ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), where his research focuses on the ability of zooplankton to adapt to environmental changes. In this interview, Declerck talks about his career and field of research.
    Steven Declerck

  5. MBO or HBO internship: Analyzing freshwater zooplankton samples with the use of a deep learning based image analysis method

    Internship
    In this internship project, we will explore how newly developed software for image analysis based on state-of-the-art deeplearning methods may contribute to the analysis of zooplankton samples.

  6. Internship or thesis: Experiment on the effects of nitrogen limitation and warming on cyano-toxin concentrations

    Internship
    Toxic cyanobacterial blooms threaten freshwater quality, exacerbated by climate change and eutrophication. The toxicity of these blooms depends not only on cyanobacteria quantity but also on the presence of potentially toxin-producing species and genotypes, and the variation in their toxin production. While we understand the individual factors driving these changes, contrasting effects on different components of bloom toxicity make predicting toxicity levels challenging.

  7. NIOO in the media

    A lot of research is done at NIOO. Of course we communicate the results ourselves, but a diverse array of national and international media often pick up our news as well. On this page you can find a selection of articles and interviews.
    microfoons bij een persconferentie

  8. Stony Point

    Metadata of the field study (STP-1) at Stony Point (STP), South Africa
    Map of Stony Point, South Africa (OpenStreetMap)

  9. Lake Kvismaren

    Metadata of the field study (KVI-1) at Lake Kvismaren (KVI), Sweden
    Map of Lake Kvismaren, Sweden (OpenStreetMap)

  10. Freshwater systems: a neglected piece of the carbon storage puzzle

    Blog
    Inland waters can help us mitigate climate change by storing carbon in the sediments. However, for a long time, they were ignored as a player in carbon sequestration ―the process of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, transforming it, and storing it underground. Carbon sequestration happens in ecosystems all around the world. Forests and oceans are most well-known for sequestering carbon, but freshwater ecosystems are also good at it. To put this in perspective: inland waters might sequester up to 20% of the amount of carbon sequestered by the oceans, even though they cover <5.6% of the oceans’ area.
    Freshwater ecosystems